I had made up a funny (intrue) response to one of the threads about great guitarists that model. Atleast I thought it was funny. At any rate, it got me to thinking … does anyone know real famous people that model?
Have fun guys
Neil Young - He’s into tinplate stuff (I think).
Michael Gross (who played the dad on “Family Ties” and is currently on the “Tremors” TV show) is an avid model railroader–his stuff has won awards and been photographed in MR in the past.
Greetings,
Found this on the net.
Celebrity Model Railroaders
Celebrity Famous for Model railroading notes
Tim Allen comedian ?
Roseanne Barr TV personality “The Roseanne Show”
Claude Bolling composer, jazz pianist American H0, 1930’s
Tom Brokow newscaster H0
Yul Brynner actor
Billy Butterfield swing band conductor
Roy Campanella baseball player Lionel
Johnny Cash country music singer songwriter Lionel
Gary Coleman actor “Diff’rent Strokes” “Currently I’m doing Lionel trains. I’m doing them as prototypically as possible, even though they are toy trains. I still like to do it as realistically as possible.” From an online interview at ABC News
Also, reportedly an N-Scale modeller. (Marc)
Phil Collins rock singer
Kevin Costner actor “…is said to be a railroad enthusiast, and there was at least one report I read somewhere which state he was one of the individuals which the C&O 614 steam locomotive was to be auctioned to in the late 1990s (but he did NOT purchase it).”
Rhett
Richard Crenna actor LGB modeller. Was once chided by his wife for cleaning his track over her new carpet
Roger Daltry Lead singer of the Who Building an extensive European H0 layout in his loft
Joe DiMaggio baseball player Lionel
Walt Disney producer live steam & other various train interests
James Doohan actor (Star Trek) “… seen in a TV Guide issue in the mid-1990s working on the brake cylinder of a coach in the L.A. area, and the feature article said he was heavily into trains, was in an L.A. area railroaders club, and had an extensive collection of model trains on display in his home.”
Rhett
Ed Dougherty pro golfer Lionel - “Houses his collection in a two-story building behind his home.”
Arthur Godfrey TV show
Damn, man
You took every response away from this forum.
But, I think you failed to mention that MANY a
President of our country LOVE trains and
Model railroads.Even our current one…Bush.
Mel Torme once appeared in an MR advertisement for one of the brass locomotive importers, endorsing their engine as the finest he had ever seen. Cannot remember the company or engine but I do recall the ad.
Dave Nelson
You forgot to mention me. I’m miffed. FRED
Hermann Goering was indeed a MRR - though I think infamous is a rather better word in this case than famous. Apparently he had a load of stock from the layout in his personal baggage when he was captured by Allied troops, which was then sold off in charity shops. There was an appeal for further info on this in “Continental Modeller” about a year ago.
well, I read at the CTT forum that Goering (ole bronx cheer) often played with his trains along with [:0] der fuehrer himself!! (may I never mention their names here again). I don’t remember if this was said earlier, but CTT made an article about Sinatra’s trains. I think MR should do an article about this subject, no doubt it’ll help to promote the hobby.
To see the trains of Mandy Patinkin go here:
http://www.mandypatinkin.net/PHOTOS/trains.html
(Roseanne?!! you gotta be kidding! where did ya get that stuff)
here’s another famous one: Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons
I recall seeing an episode of the Simpsons where Ned Flanders had a small layout in his rec. room, and a yellow “RxR” sign on the wall.
The NMRA has a list of famous model railroaders on their website.
http://www.nmra.org/beginner/why.html
Most of them have already been mentioned here, however, i do not recall seeing Winston Churchill’s name on this forum.
Josh Ziegler
Spokane, WA
When a local PBS show here in California, “California’s Gold” , hosted by Huell “Go-olly, look at that!” Howser visited Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs home, we got to see Frank’s Lionel setup. It was houses in a vintage caboose that had an extension built on one side. It was a huge Lionel and Tinplate collection, all still maintained in working condition by the families estate. Very Nice.
A made-for-cable movie about the Brat Pack featured a scene in Frank Sinatra’s house of Frank operating his tinplate model railroad layout. A nice touch, really.
About the only other model railroading on TV I can think of is Pugsley and Wednesday on “The Addams Family” crashing trains into each other on their model railroad…
According to Robert K. Massie’s Nicholas and Alexandra, the Tsarvich Alexis had something like a model railroad. Apparently the “layout” included a city, and anumber of animated features, including ringing cathedral bells. It sounded like the whole thing operated by clockwork. One wonders what became of it.
Tsarvich Alexis was canonized a saint by tthe Russian Orthodox Church; if his toy qualifies as a model railroad, he may be the only model railroader who has been canonized.
I remember seeing some show on the discovery channel or something like that that was all about trains, probably 20 minutes filld with different model railroads, never seen it again though. Also, if anyone has children The PBS show Reading Rainbow had a show about magical hats and that they did. (Ex… He put on a fireman’s hat and road around in the fire truck for about 10-15 minutes, welder, librarian and engineer’s hat, which brought him to a HUGE layout about 2 stories high, i believe it was a club in Cali somewhere, but this olayout was gigantic!!! Like 2 stories high, and probably almost the exact size of a football field in measurments. Mountains and Tressels were taller than the host of the show!